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What Happens When You Really Disconnect – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review
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Daniel Goleman writes in Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, a fascinating new book he’ll publish this fall: “Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.”
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What grew each day was my capacity for absorbed focus.
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By the end of nine days, I felt empowered and enriched. With my brain quieter, I was able to take back control of my attention.
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If there had been an emergency while I was away, I could have been reached. The humbling truth is that not a single thing demanded my attention. Most everything can wait.
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The key to being more fully absorbed is to regularly and fully disconnect.
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Recently found … 04/26/2013
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